what resources is put behind it? i think that focus on testing is useful because it gives a pointer as to how the policy will develop. this week there is a piloted project and some secondary schools which will be coming to an end where students do a lateralflow coming to an end where students do a lateral flow test every day if they are a contact of a positive case rather than staying at home. that will give ministers and and potentially an alternative to pursue when schools come back in in september. there is one thing you cannot dispute, which isjust september. there is one thing you cannot dispute, which is just the number of children who are being caught up in this. the latest numbers said that there were 170,000 pupils in england last week who were sent home because they were a contact of a positive case. that is a threefold increase of a few weeks before. it is driving parents, teachers and the teaching unions to distraction. ., teachers and the teaching unions to distraction. .